Flight Simulator?

Question

Hi, I have just bought this game second hand without instructions there is a lot of help of web but what I can't seem to find is if you do the plan of where you want to fly to and take off how do you set autopilot on to fly the route or do you have to do it manually? And the set time to go faster time how do you know how fast this is going or is it a case of just checking map when you are near the airport? And on auto pilot how do you work out Altitude, heading, speed to set it at etc. Thanks

2004 version

Answer 1

Micro soft flight simulator 2004 has no written manual. it is all in the "game"
Start the sim, click on learning center, click on step by step instructions. when ready, go to lessons, you will be tutored on how to fly the sim.

Answer 2

There are some really helpful answers and links above. I'd like to add something. Let me point out some differences between real live aviation and Flight Simulator X. When you're flying a plane on Flight Simulator X, you can do whatever you want with an airplane. You can cruise at an altitude of 500 feet AGL at 320 KIAS, extend landing gear and flaps to full when you're cruising at 36,000 feet with no damage, recover a stall using a nose-up input, touch down at a descent rate of 1800 feet per minute with flaps set 0, come to a complete stop after touchdown just by pulling the parking brakes(without engaging the reverse thrust or spoilers) and taxi around the airport by steering the nose wheel with the yoke just the way you steer a Grand Cherokee. Nobody asks you why. You may use any tabletop simulators for fun or to learn to fly - but be advised that you'll go about developing a set of unorganized, unclear information and terribly wrong concepts that will confuse you when you learn the real concepts of real live aviation because you don't learn things in a proper order. But it's okay if you keep yourself updated with how things work in the real world. I think it would be great to fly if they have a simulator cockpit and controls. But still, it's not something that I know with which you can log flight hours.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

as some have hinted, the Learning centre within Flight Simulator is a great resource to help you fly all sorts of planes, and taxi them on the ground and such. there is also lessons that you can fly, that start out with a Cessna 172SP and work up all the way to a Boeing 737-400. Some planes in FS 2004 do not have an auto pilot (most do though), to file a flight plan you have to do it through the flight planner (in game, while flying, click on File > Flight Planner), to use time accelleration (compression) hit "R" and then the "-" or "=" keys, Time Compressions comes in rates of 2x, 4x 8x, 16x, 32x, 64x and 128x. and you can choose to fly manually with a joystick (which is A LOT easier than a keyboard) or you can use the autopilot but you have to adjust the speed, heading, altitude of the autopilot yourself usually on the Boeing Jets, Autopilot controls are located at the top of the main panel, right hand side.

Answer 5

Most of the answers you have are pretty good ones. The Learning Center is a great resource for learning the game and how to sim fly. You may want to buy a good joystick also. It makes flying a lot more enjoyable. It also makes it easier to fly. Controlling the a/c with the keyboard, while not impossible, is very hard to do and have fun (that's my opinion). There are several sources for downloading new aircraft and other files that will make sim flying fun. The main site I use is www.avsims.com There are a lot of virtual airlines and military flyer's out there. These are groups that fly as a group online and individually off line preforming flights and missions. Good luck and happy flying.

Answer 6

Your flight plan should be set through the FMC. I cant really say more as i dont have more information on what kind of aircraft it is. If you want to make the time faster then go to options and time compression you will see 2x 4x, 8x and more..If you want to check your map go to flights and map...

Answer 7

Does this simulator have a name?
There are several out there and they do not all work the same.

Answer 8

2 points

Answer 9

I would suggest you go to the tutorial section. There you will be able to learn to fly the small aircraft all the way up to the big jets. Start off small and build you way up. It is much more enjoyable that way.

Answer 10

http://www.keycardhq.de/
Keyboard template for fs2004.

Just google this stuff. Save the hard questions for the group.